"That is not what I mean, and I think I had better talk quite straight to you.

Now I like Mr.Seaforth and Mr.Alton, too, and as Jack is mixed up in some business of theirs and they are going to stay down in Vancouver we shall probably see a good deal of them.

Jack, however, is sometimes a little hasty in making friends, and I want to know the other reason that brought Mr.Seaforth out from the old country." "You fancy there is one ?" Thorne said quietly.
"Yes.

Lieutenant Atkinson made a little blunder one night when he spoke of him." "Atkinson never had very much sense," Thorne said dryly.

"I, however, fancied a man took his standing among you according to what he did in this country." "Yes," said Mrs.Forel.